Abstract
In giving an account of description in Part One I gave at the same time of necessity an account of the formation of descriptive generalizations. I should like at this point to turn again to the procedures used for forming descriptive generalizations in order to make the account of discovery and test procedures complete. In the last chapter I distinguished between mechanical and intuitive discovery and testing procedures in a general way. This distinction can be given a detailed application in the business of giving in the most scientifically desirable form descriptions that ‘fit the facts’ and of testing these general descriptions to discover their correctness and the limits to their field of application.
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Harré, R. (1983). ‘Fitting the Facts’. In: An Introduction to the Logic of the Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17102-6_6
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